> Instead of being so negative about BeOS   
      
   I am not negative, I am REALISTIC.   
      
   > how about letting some of us try to   
   > give him a solution beside just giving up.   
      
   I DID give him a solution: I advised him to use an OLD computer. BeOS WAS   
   developed on 5-year old hardware, chances are  that BeOS 5 WILL run better   
   on old hardware. Hardware that doesn't cost more than $100 today and that's   
   hardware that BeOS was tested against. Chances ARE better with old hardware.   
      
   >The fact that you can't get BeOS   
   > running on a recent machine does not limit the rest of us.   
      
   Who told you that I can't? Don't assume you know anything about me.   
      
   >Loli-Queru always seems to go out of her way to try and put down BeOS   
      
   Yeah, that's how much you understand...   
      
   >  For some reason she can't accept that some people like it a lot more than   
      
   I can fully accept your choices. You must accept mine too though. BeOS is   
   old now. Was it good: yes. But today it doesn't do what I need to do. I need   
   a multi-IM solution, a browser that it's not so badly ported like   
   mozilla/firefox is, an email client that doesn't crash every 5 minutes and   
   supports SSL/IMAP, and an FTP client that also doesn't crash every 5   
   minutes. I don't know how much you know about my history on BeOS, but I have   
   pretty much tried everytrhing from BeBits. BeOS does NOT fill my needs. Does   
   it yours? Great.   
      
   That's why I advise that guy to get an old computer to install BeOS. Trying   
   to make that guy FIGHT to get BeOS working on that new machine that BeOS was   
   never tested on its chipsets, is NOT the FAIR and NICE thing to do. The fair   
   thing to do is to tell him to go shed $100 and get an old PII or PIII   
   (preferably Intel-based chipsets) and get BeOS 5 running on it. That's the   
   advise I give to ANY person who asks me how to run BeOS 5 on their new PC.   
   Or, wait for Zeta that's supposedly tested better on newer systems and go   
   buy that when it's out.   
      
   Eugenia   
      
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